Sounds like this is a definite book to read: The Recursive Mind: The Origins of Human Language, Thought, and Civilization.
Michael Corbalis, as noted in this review, thinks its recursive thinking, done without any special fluency in language, let alone a language "module," that makes us human.
In 2016, Michael Tomasello put the final stake in Chomsky's ideas. (The Chomsky fanbois still don't accept this.) Tomasello does note that Chomsky, by the late 1980s, recognized that his single "universal grammar" was as dead as a doorknob. Instead, he tried to shift to, basically, classes of universal grammars. This still failed.
And, Tomasello adds that many of Chomsky's ideas were unfalsifiable.
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